3.5.5 Remote Collateral Relatives

If the deceased has no surviving descendants, parents, siblings (or their descendants), surviving spouse not judicially separated, or ascendants, more remote collaterals succeed to the deceased’s separate property.1  Among collateral relatives, the nearest in degree excludes all others.2  If there are several in the same degree, they share equally and by heads.3

• 1La. C.C. art. 896.
• 2Id.
• 3Id.